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Indian Express Explained · 16 Oct
How religious conversion affects eligibility for caste-based reservation ↗

Consider the following pairs regarding the constitutional and legal framework governing reservation and scheduled caste status in India:

Pairs

  1. Article 341 — Empowers the President to specify Scheduled Castes through a public notification, and Parliament to modify such list by law
  2. Article 16(4) — Enables the State to make provisions for reservation in appointments for any backward class of citizens not adequately represented in services
  3. Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, Paragraph 3 — Restricts SC status to persons professing Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism, excluding those professing Islam or Christianity

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

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